Final Submission

Creative Critical Reflection Presentation

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Third Revision

After our second submission to the class, we got very interesting commentary to improve on in our final submission.   We found out we needed to have a clear protagonist because our surplus amount of characters and little scenes made it more confusing to the audience.  With additional dialogue and a clear plot our extract should make more sense. This was fixed through our new vice over which explained the clear antagonist which was technology and the static gaze caused by it.  The problems we faced with our extract were similar to the feedback received from our first submission, "Glitch".  Glitch was confusing due to the fact that our dialogue wasn't sufficient and our shots that we filmed were confusing to the audience and plot.  Thus we decided to re film, A Static Gaze which was supposed to fix the confusing element and add a more evil element to technology.  However, we need more dialogue in order to create a clear story line. In our final submission, we will re film shots and dialogue in order to have a clear story line that the audience can conceptualize.

3rd Quarter Draft- Static Gaze

After our first submission of the old extract, "Glitch", we realized our extract needed to show more of the idea of a simulation.  Thus, we added the glitching TV in order to represent that.  The static of the television gives the movie depth and a more of a sci-fi feeling to the audience.  The voice over explaining hypnotism gives depth to our film which leaves a sense of foreshadow for the rest of our film.  The actors in our film were all teenagers and adapted to playing their roles as accurately as possible.  Below, is our third quarter submission.

Creative Critical Reflection Rough Draft 4

Throughout the editing of our extract, our group used multiple editing sources in order to capture the shots accurately to audiences.  In our first submission we used the editing cite iMovie for our titles.  This was an easy way out because iMovie is a very generic editing software not offering any originality.  The titles being imported were also rushed which led to the, "Title Text Here", being shown in our opening credits.  Upon re editing our new extract, we used Davinci Resolve for the title slides which offer more originality and room for less error in having an unwanted credit being shown.  Davinci Resolve was also used as well as Final Cut for our sound in terms of effects and voice overs.  For color filtering and correcting, the software system Adobe Premiere to edit this part of our extract. Our extract needed powerful editing in order for our ideas to be properly displayed to audiences which is why we used so many editing software in order to have an understood meaning of our extract.

In filming, we used Carl's two different cameras, the  Canon 60D and the Canon 80D.  They benefited our extract by making it have better quality which helps make our extract look legitimate.  It was my first time filming on an actual camera rather than an iPhone which gave me a new learning as well.  I was taught how to film on both cameras which means in the future I should be able to adjust filming on a different camera.  In adding sound, we used a Blue Snowball microphone to obtain the accurate sounds that fit our film.  For example, the voice over that appears throughout the film was used from the Blue Snowball Microphone.  The depth of inflection used in the recording would not have been as accurately obtained without using the Blue Snowball Microphone.

Creative Critical Reflection Rough Draft 3

Throughout the filming process of our extract, we faced a variety of difficulties during the process.   To start, we faced a problem with agreeing on a finalized script because we had so many ideas.  We finally all decided on making a compromise between ideas below is the first copy of our original script.  It had many flaws but it was good because our film group incorporated some of the ideas from the original script.  Then, we decided  our first submission script was too confusing which led us to re filming and creating a new script.  The new script offered more adaptable to us behind the camera in ways of capturing the ideas accurately on camera.

At the start of the film, I had difficulties with editing because I had no experience in that version of the field.  Although, Victor edited the film he showed me how along the way.  On our finalized version we have many voice overs, which is an editing skill I developed an understanding for throughout this film process.  While filming on location, I learned what the actors have to got through in order to develop a character without a live audience.  During filming both times,  I learned that it helps when actors know what emotions they are trying to convey.  Overall, during the production of our film I developed and strengthened my skills during the process.

Creative Critical Reflection Rough Draft 2

In casting the revised version of the film, we wanted the cast to be all guys to give it a darker theme of a guy stalking a guy.  This also gives insight to the male dominated field of video games.   Our cast consists of teenagers ranging ages from 17 to 19 opening the door for teenagers to relate with the film and have more of an imitative to come see the film.  The actors are very skilled in connecting on screen with each other which means they should be able to do the same while on screen.  Young adults should be interested in our film as well because millennials are commonly attracted to technology which is the mere concept of our movie.

The real media text would be distributed through independent film cites with audiences wanting to watch a sci-fi film.  Our film takes a new idea of virtual reality would hopefully excited audiences on independent cites to watch our movie.  Cites such as CreateSpace and YouTube would be places we could produce our film to a wanting audience.  With gained traction, advertisements could be done to get more wanting to watch the film.   Independent cites have an audience, but not a live one which is what our film would need to obtain.

Fortunately, our town of  Sarasota also hold a film festival each year which is open for anyone wanting to submit an independent film.  The Sarasota Film Festival takes place on April,23rd this year.  Our town of Sarasota also has a film society which has tow locations Burns Court and Lakewood Ranch Cinemas. They have a Cine-World Film Festival every year which we could attend in order to get a feel for the independent film world and possibly submit our film to the festival as well. This could help our film gain attraction if we win anything or have an audience wanting to see the submissions in the festival.